Corrupt Disc (?) Related to My Operating System at All?

I have a DVD set, which I purchased, that has two DVDs each with A and B sides.

I've always been able to play the DVDs both on my computer and with a DVD player.

Recently Disc 1 Side A is not recognized by my computer. I have Windows 7. I'm getting no AutoPlay window, and when I click on "Computer" and
"DVD RW Drive," I get no option to Play. Yet it plays fine as usual on my DVD player connected to my TV.

I'm wondering whether I can use my tech support for this problem. Is this entirely caused by damage to the DVD which apparently matters with the
computer but not the DVD player, or could my operating system have anything to do with it?

could just be dirt on the laser of your DVD drive.weird this thread came up actually,last night I was reinstalling Windows 7 for a friend from a usb
drive.when installed the WiFi and ethernet needed a driver which was on a DVD,drive wouldn't read it which was a nightmare as I needed internet to
get it with no working disc.gave the laser a wipe after it just spun the disc endlessly.this was on a laptop so I could open the drawer and easily
clean the laser.if it's a desktop get a cheap disc cleaner CD.I think it's your drive not your operating system.

No , usually what happens is the program scans the disc and creates a single image file containing all the data on the disk. This file will probably
have a .ISO extension. ie Whatever.iso. Thats what we call an ISO image file. Its a compacted format containing all your original files from the
disc.

When you have the ISO image file you can then use a DVD writing program to write that ISO file to a blank DVD and it will create a perfect copy of
your original disc.

In a lot of the cases the same program you use to create the ISO image file will also be able to write it to a blank DVD for you

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